There Word, Excel, and Powerpoint from Micro$soft that are usually very expensive.

There is also money management software, project planning software, and graphic software.

Well there is a solution for small [...]]]> There is a ton of software a new business sometimes feels that they must purchase right when they are starting off a new business.

There Word, Excel, and Powerpoint from Micro$soft that are usually very expensive.

There is also money management software, project planning software, and graphic software.

Well there is a solution for small businesses that are starting out is to use Open Source Software.
There is a great web site that lists all of the commercial software along with it’s Open Source Alternative.
Check out Open Source Alternatives web site.

They will show you stuff like
Expensive App             Free Apps
Photoshop                   The GIMP
VISIO                         DIA
MS Office                    Open Office
Illustrator, CorelDraw  Inkscape
Quickbooks                 Postbooks

There are many more and almost every big commercial application now has an Open Source alternative.  It is possible that you may need to be running Linux for some of these, but Ubuntu has become as easy to use as Windows or a Mac.

I found another Blog posting about 50 top applications and their alternatives.
The post was made early in 2008 so the software most likely has gotten even better since then.

Check out http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/

This is typically due to something being echo’d or sent back to your login attempt.

Usually, it’s something you have in your .profile or .bashrc login files.

Just add the [...]]]> If you have ever used scp or sftp you may have encountered the dreaded ( ”Received message too long” or “Bad packet length” ”) errors.

This is typically due to something being echo’d or sent back to your login attempt.

Usually, it’s something you have in your .profile or .bashrc login files.

Just add the following to the very top of your login shell settings file.

if [ ${TERM} == "dumb" ]; then
return
fi

This will exit out of running the login shell commands if you login using a “dumb” terminal.